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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-10-17
Va n Endeavors to CoIonize.
[Qualn's Dict onarY.l

During the historical period the races
of Europe have in vain endeayored to
colonize the valley of the Nile, but
they have not been able to propagate
their species, and have died away,
leaving the valley of the Nile to its
ancient inhabitants. Their children
cannot withstand the heat of summer.
On the northeastern shore of Africa,
the Algeria of the present, history pre-
sents the same record. The Romans
and the VisigoGhs occupied it's plains for
centuries, continually recruiting their
colonies from the mother countries; and
yet, except in the mountains, ali trace
of their presence has disappeared. They
could not rear their children so as to
occupy the land of the Arabs
What heightened periods of time
must have elapsed to so profoundly
modify races deriving their origin from
a common parentage, that they can no
longer live and propagate their species
in the same climates
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-10-17
THE MARVELLOUS AND 4oRRIsLE.
superstitious Lore OF the Old Negroes
The Art Of COnjurfng.
TBfII Arp in Atlanta Constitution

superstitious Lore OF the Old Negroes
The Art of COnjurfng.
bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution
Old Aunt Peggy was an oracle in hez
way. She was little and old and
wrinkled, and smoked her pipe in the
chimney corner and never walked much.
But she sat and swayed backward and
forward and listened to the children
the black and the white. She called
them all children if they were under 90
But ever and anon she would give a
grunt or shake her head and say dat
won't do, my chile. Better mine how
you talk, now; better mine. I hear de
screech owl last night and he talk to
me, he did, and she would make up
some mysterious words that the screech
owl said.
Aunt Peggy believed in frogs and
lizards and owls and bats and cats and
snakes and Jack olanternS and charms
and conjuring. There were secret mys-
teries about them all, and they had to
be propitiated and kept amiable or some
great harm would come upon the house
hold Where the old negroes got all
this superstitious lore nobody knows ex-
actlY, but it is not confined to them
There have been Just such supersittions
in all ages and countries. Macbeth con-
suited the witches and they made their
charms by seething that horrible Cruel
made of frogs and lizards and owls and
bats and adders' tongues and goats gall
and Turk nose and Tartars lips
and other unpalatable things, and then
cooled it down and settled it with
babOon S blood.
Those old time negroes would have
made splendid witches if there had been
any witch school to go to. 1t suited
their nature and suits it yet. As a race
they delight in the marvellous when it
is mixed up with the horrible. Old
Uncle Sam was good old darkey, and
the children loved him He was IA
miliar with spirits and graveyards and
had shook hands with rawhead and
blOOdybOnes and, when freedom came,
he gave full play to his fancies, and got
him little long cared donkey and a
pair of spectacles and rode from cabin
cabin by day and by night, calling him
self Doctor Sam, and protesting to
cure all diseases of his race by the mys-
FERROUS art of con uring
He carried his professional outfit in
an old greasy sack before him, and he
was the most ludicrous burlesque upon
upon the medical profession ever seen,
reckon. l would give S. for photo
graph Of the whole concern as it used
to slowly peram bulate the Chattahoochee
region of old Gwinnett some twenty
years ago. prevailed on the old gen
tleman once to let me see the inside of
that bag and take an inventory. De-
secs 1ce@i everything that Shakespeare
named, he BAD TT curious bug he
could Fl gs and June bugs
an6 +U.r Nie 1he 1evil riding
i Al n
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-10-17
King Corn KOring Cotton?
[Demorest's Monthly

Before the civil var cotton was re-
garded as our most important national
agricultural product. % large a por-
ton of it was exported that in great
part it paid for our imports of mer-
chandise, hence it was said that cotton
was king. But although still one o.
our most important national products,
it is surpassed in value of late years not
only by wheat and corn, but by hay.
LAST year, the value of our cotton crop
was about 1926, 900, 100, that of the
wheat crop was $3.50, 900, 600, while the
value of corn summed up the enormous
total of 500, 600, 600
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-10-17
First Impression of London.
..IanneY .JIna's Letter

The first impression produced upon
the mind of the stranger is one of vast
ness and quantity, and the individual
feels lost in the mere contemplation of
an immensely which passes his power
of computation. London is not city,
but a nest of cities within cities. like
the groups of Chinese boxes or after
noon tea tables. Wherever you go, or
whatever you do, there is crowd do
ing the same thing, or bent in the same
direction.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-10-17
LOVE AND GLORY.
[Clara Darzan nIacIean.

[Clara Dargan Maclean.l -
She sings Of war and daring high, g
OF valor Of pure and knightly deeds;
I hear the rushing of the steeds, =
The clarion-cau of victory.
ooh, Love" l cry, az gladly die,
For will die for theer
She sings of love, the tired and true.
And passion sweeps the sounding strings,
And scars as if on eagles wings
To pierce the very heavens blue.
"Oh, sweet" / cry, II cannot die;
live, and live for your
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-10-17
Thanks to the H ,thetic Band.

The glazing white of the New Orleans
dwellings is giving way to orange, vel
lows and olive green's, much to the
improvement of the city's appearance.
For this, says The Times-Democrat, I'VE
owe thanks to that band of aesthetics
who did many cranky things, but at
the same time brought some beautiful
objects into favor"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-10-17
No Purely EngIis, Rnlers.
[ hiladelph a Call. ]

Elizabeth was the last of the purely
English rulers of England. Since her
reign no monarch of purely English
blood has assembled the English throne,
while the line of Mary Stuart has never
ceased to reign-the present queen be-
ing direct lineal descendant of that
charming but Inflated sovereign.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-06-09

edited by tile Ladies of the W, c. I, u
For us who affirm that alcohol is a
poison, and its use rs a beverage al
ways hurtful, always perilous, always
demoralizing, there is obviously but
one consistent, defensible position
that of unqualified and uncompromis-
ing hostility to the liquor traffic.
If men will poison@their neighbors
for gain, we greatly prefer that they
should do it on their own responsible
ity, rather than the State's-at all
events we cannot permit them to do
it on ours.
To sell rum for a livelihood seems
bad enough but for whole commun-
ity to share the responsibility and the
guilt Of such traffic seems worse bar
gain than that of Eve or Judas. No,
we must stand by our principles and
trust to time and light to bring us tri-
umph in that position. Alcohol is a
poison, the traffic in alcoholic bever-
ages is an offence against the well be-
ing OF society, and ought to be crime
against the laws.
The essential wrong is not the lack
OF license, but inheres in the business
for which a license is demanded. Ii
it were a good business, no license for
its prosecution should be required, be.
ing bad one, no such license should
be granted.
No practicable enforcement of the
license system will eyer sensibly miti-
gate the evils Of intemperance. But
let the laws inhexibly forbid the sale
OF alcoholic beverages, and every
youth is warned from the cradle that
those beverages, are hurtful and dan
gerous, and that in drinking them he
encourages violation Of the laws of
the land. Such legislation may not
at once abolish rum-selling, as our
present laws against theft and bur
glary do not utterly extirpate those
crimes but being based on principle
and dealing out justice to rich and
poor, it must command the respect
even of its antagonists, a nd gradually
win its way to universal respect and
obedience.
The above is from an editorial by
Horace Greeley in an old copy of the
N. Y. Tribune.
Would that every voter in our state
would take this position. 1t would
mean victory for Tennessee.
The population of Kansas has in.
creased from $4,000 to 100000 un.
der prohibition.
Prohibition has emptied the Jail at
Toronto, Canada.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-06-09
Opera COnlique Fire.

PARIS, June 3.-The La France
says The police authorities are keep
ing from the public the actual num-
Der Of deaths resulting from the OPP
era Comique fire. Many bodies, it
says have been taken out from the
ruins at various times, and removed to
the morgue, unknown to the people.
La France estimates the real number
of lives lost by the fire at over two
hundred. Madame Blondel, lady
who was in the theater when the fire
broke out, has just died from the ef-
fects of nervous fright experienced in
her escape from the burning building.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-06-09
Interesting 10 Pensioners and
Officers.

The law below, approved March 25,
1887, by the Legislature of Tennessee,
makes charge which it is important
that pensioners should note;
An act to repeal Section 5314 of Mill
ken & Vertreees' Code Of Tennessee.
Section l. That Section 5914 of Mill
ken & Vertrees' Code OF Tennessee,
prohibiting Justices of the peace and
Clerks of the Country Courts charg-
ing fees for certificates and seals in
the applications for pensioners money,
or upon powers of attorney for that
purpose, be, and the same is hereby
repealed.
Officers who served during the late
war are many OF them unaware that
the the following has become a law,
and we print it for their benefit.
Correction of muster-under the
law approved February 8, 1887, officers
Of the late war can have their muster
amended so as to date back to the
time they were appointed to act as
officers or to the date of their COM
missions, This will entitle them to
the increased pay, and if they draw a
pension they can have it increased by
re-rating back to the time it was
granted-Herald C. Tribune.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-06-09
Death OF Capt. flames SEWER.

JoNEsBoRo, Tenn, June 3,-Capt
James Sewer died at his home in this
place at fifteen minutes past s o'clock
this morning He has been in failing
health for several months, and his
death was not unexpected to his friends
here. He was born at Greeneville,
Tennessee ON the 18th of February,
1914, and was seventy-three years,
three months and ten days old. He
was first married to Jane Simpson at
Rogersville, Tennessee, and by her
had seven sons and one daughter, five
of whom are living She died short
time before the war and during the
war he married Mrs. Eva Neill, wild
ow OF James X. Neill, of RogersVille,
Tenn. They had two daughters, who
both survive him. He was a man not
ed for his strict integrity and good
judgment. He was for many years
cashier OF the branch of the State Bank
at Rogersville, Tennessee. He has
lived in Jonesboro, Tenn, since the
year 1869, and has been most of the
time owner and proprietor of TIE
Washington House He was badly
crippled few years ago and gave up
the proprietorship for q few years, but
getting some better had taken charge
again a short time ago. lie was son
of Valentine Sewer, who was for many
years circuit court clerk of Greene
county, Tenn, and was a grand-neph-
ew to Gov. Sewer. He had a large
circle of friends, and was man of
very rare social qualities and always
made his guests feel perfectly at home
by his rare faculty OF entertaining
them in conversation and by his acts
of kindness and close attention to
their every want. He was a kind
neighbor, a devoted husband and
father and thoroughly honest and
good man. Peace to his ashes.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-06-09
Overland bY Balloon.

The New York World has discover
ed a young aeronaut who expects to
come across the country from St.
Louis in a balloon. The balloon is now
on its way West 1t is to take up the
aeronaut, a photographer, govern
ment meteorologist and a reporter
June II has been fixed for the ascen-
sion. if the atmospheric conditions
are favorable. 1t they are not, the
trip may be delayed until the meteor
ologist gives the word. He has made
study of air currents and thinks he
can avoid the mistakes Of the past.
Four attempts have been made here
tofore to make long air voyages. In
1859 Wise travelled 1900 miles under
exceedingly favorable conditions and
at the rate of a mile minute. The
Graphic" balloon went up in 1873 and
was a failure. A few years ago Prof
King ascended from Minneapolis in
"The Great Northwest" in the centre
of high pressure area and the balloon
floated lazily over the city. Later he
went NY from Chicago under condi-
tions which sent him offinto the forests
of Wisconsin. Since then the science
of meteorology has made rapid strides,
and the theory upon which the bla-
loon will be sent up is this; "If
clouds are moving to the north OF
lines drawn from Salt Lake City and
Quebec through st. Louis and the
lower wind blows in the same direc-
ton or if, with clear sky, small bla-
looms show the same motions, tn en-
| would not leave the earth. If either
of these currents is favoring, all we
have to do is to get into it and sail on. "
Professor H. Allen Hazen, the me-
teorologist, has evidently studied the
situation very carefully, and when he
leaves the earth he will have the bene-
fit of all the knowledge that the Sig
nal Office can afford him by its wealth
er maps His attempt will be watch
ed with interest. The aeronaut is
counting on remaining in the air two
days. If he can do this he will have
accomplished what no one in this
country has been able to do. 1t has
been the experience here that balloon
cannot remain up over twenty-four
consecutive hours, to say nothing Of
forty-eight. Expansion under the
heat of the sun soon weakens a bal.
loon.-PhiIadeIphia Times.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-06-09
WHOLE NO. 1855

their practices all his life. He
should not protest at what he finds
going on in this world even though
it does have the appearance of evil
he must approve the practice, be
quiet or stand a good chance to be
murdered
1t is not so strange that man
who uses his influence against the
whisky traffic should be in some
danger of assassination, but it is
strange and sad that good citizens
will go on voting for men and par
ties that will continue to legalize
and protect the traffic when its only
effects on the community are to
bring more poverty, crime and mur-
ders. If we are to favor institutions
because they were here when we
came into the world then no re-
forms of society could take place.
If we are to protest against those
which time has shown to be evil all
of the time then the saloon has
proved itself unworthy to live.
Time has shown it to be curse to
a country mentally, morally and
financially. Let the people of Ten
nessee give full and an honest
vote on the 18th Thursday in Sep
tember and the amendment will be
sure TO carry.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-06-09
How Napoleon 'Terr0rized
People.
Review of Taine's Napoleon, in the June
Cosmopolitan.

Review of Taine's Napoleon in the June
Cosmopolitan.
All equality, all familiarity, freedom,
or companionship fled at his approach.
When he had been appointed to COM
mand the Army of Italy, Admiral De-
cress, who had known him well at
Paris, hearing that he was to pass
through Toulon, offered to present all
his comrades. The admiral says: 'I
ran full OF eagerness and delight to
greet him. The doors of the salon
opened. | was going to spring to-
ward him, when his attitude, his look,
the sound OF his voice, were sufficient
to arrest me. There was nothing
offensive or insulting; but it was
enough After that | never tried to
overstep the distance that he had
placed between us"
Some days later, at Albenga, the
generals of division, among the rest
Augereau, kind of heroical, rough
old soldier, proud OF his tall form and
OF his bravery, came to headquarters
very badly disposed toward the little
upstairs whom they had sent to them
from Paris. From the description
given of him, Augereau is insulting
and insubordinate in advance: "a
favorite OF Barrasl" he says "a street
general" /" They are admitted, and
Bonaparte makes them wait. He ap
pears finally girds on his sword, puts
on his hat, explains his dispositions,
gives themhis orders, and sdismisses
them, Augereua had remained
dumb; when they are outside he first
RECEIVERS himself, and finds again his
customary oaths He agrees with
Massena, that chat little b-of
general frightened him" He is not
able to understand "the ascendency
with whcih he felt himself crushed at
the first glance" Another specimen
OF this ascendency on another old SOL
dier Of the Revolution, still rougher
and more energetic than Augereua is
given in the experience of Gen. Van
damme In 1915 Vandamme said to
Marshal Sault, one day as they we're
ascending together the Tuilleries
"My dear friend, that devil of man
(referring to the Emperor) exercises
a fascination over me that am una
ble TO account for 1t influences me
to that degree that /, who fear neither
God nor devil, am ready to tremble
like child when he approaches. He
could make me pass through the eye
OF needle to cast myself in the fire
for him." And he himself said on
certain occasion eyes | am sol
der, because it is the especial gift
received at my birth it is my exis-
tence, my habit Of life Wherever |
have been | have commanded. At
twenty three years of age | comman-
ded at the siege of Toulon: COM
manded in Paris on the Vendemi-
aire; aroused the enthusiasm OF the
soldiers in Italy as soon as appeared
before them | was born for that
His was an extraordinary and superb
or nature, made for command and
conquest,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-06-09
Haddock, Northrup, Gambrell
From the Milligan Mentor.

From the Milligan Mentor.
And about forty thousand others
have been killed through strong
drink in these United States in the
last few months.
The three were murdered with
out warning or personal consent
and their destruction was not au-
thorized by the law The saloon
keepers did it directly and ofmalice.
The cause of their malice was that
these three men raised public OBJ
lection to the gradual but certain
besotting and killing of the forty
thousand. They especially object
ed that the saloon keepers should
do such work under sanction and
protection of the law. They OBJ
Jected to making or continuing laws
which establish and protect bust
ness that is wholly hurtful to a COM
munity in morals, money, power or
thought and happiness. For such
to honest men, natural views and
expressions, they were murdered.
Their murderers have not been pun
ished and likely will Not be.
In the meantime the lawfully es-
tablished saloon goes on killing for
ty thousand others and preparing
as many more young men for the
next year
This same legal business goes on
producing poverty, ignorance and
misery, public breeder of sin and
unhappiness, standing on every
street corner and village highway
advertising its business, yet upheld
and protected by christian voters
Made to have the same sanction OF
law that selling bread or clothes
has. Why? Simply because il
has been that way in the past, and
good men have lived and died be
fore us who did not protest.
The hindoos likewise for ages
beat the widows when the husband
died. They should have continued
the practice
Solomon had many wives and SC
for ages the patriarchs did. Thai
practice should have continued
For long time any personal of,
fence between public men or citi
zens was the signal for duel witt
knives, pistols or guns This ough
to have gone on. 1t was not hal
SO destructive as the lawfully pro
tected saloon business.
Every child raised in the Nor
mon community has been used t.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-06-09
WILLIAM A. WHEELER DEAD.
Passing Away without a. Sign
of Recognition of Those
About Him.

WAsHINGTowN, N. Y, June 4.-Ex-
Vice-President William A. Wheeler
died at his home in Malone at 1910
o'clock this morning.
He remained in comatose state
during the night, and passed peace
fully away without sign of recogni-
ton of those about him.
Mr.. Wheeler was born on June 80,
1919, in Malone, Franklin county,
New York. He entered the Universi-
ty of Vermont, and afterward COM
menced the study of law with Colo
mel Asa Hascall He was made Dis
trict Attorney for Franklin county,
and was its Superintendent of Schools.
In the years of 1850 and 1851 Mr..
Wheeler represented that county in
the New York House of Assembly,
and was member of the Senate OF
New York in 1858 and 1859, and
President pro TEN, of that body. He
was member and the president OF
the New York Constitutional Conven-
ton in 1867 aud 1868, and was elected
a Republican Representative in Con-
gress to the Thirty-seventh, Forty-frst,
Forty-third, and Forty-fourth Con-
crosses, and in June, 1876, was unan-
imously nominated for the Vice
Presidency of the United States by
the Republican National Convention
at Cincinnati. He was one OF the Or
ganizers OF the Bank OF Malone, and
held the position of cashier and chief
managing director. He was trustee
of the N. N, Y. Railway Co. In the
political complications which arose
in Louisiana during the season of the
Forty-third Congress Mr.. Wheeler
was conspicuous, he having been
chairman of the special committee OF
the House of Representatives that
visited Louisiana, and finally adjusted
the difficulties existing there on the
basis OF what is known as the "Wheel'
er compromise"
AT the end of his term rs Vice
President in March, 1881, Mr.. Wheel
er retired to private life. In July OF
that year: however, he was candidate
for the seat made vacant in the Sen
ate by the resignation of Roscoe
Conkling at the time OF his famous
contest with President Garfield ovel
the spoils of the New York Custom
House, and received over forty votes
in the Republican caucus. The long
and bitter struggle ended in the nom
ination and election of Warner Miller
In June, 1882, President Arthur nom
mated him for chairman OF the Tariff
Commission, but this position he
promptly declined and later in the
same year he declined to be a candi
date for Congressman-at-large in New
York.
Even before his term as Vice Presi
dent, Mr.. Wheeler was troubled with
chronic sleeplessness, which was tbs
beginning of the terrible malady
which has resulted in his death
softening of the brain. As a remedy
for insomnia, it is understood that he
began the use of opium, with fatal ef
feet in the end. For years he used
the drug in moderation, and it had
nerved him to some of the most bril-
liant political achievements on record
but its continued use finally told or
his constitution, and by the end of his
term as Vice President he was broken
down and prematurely old
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-06-09

1t is related that a Chicago woman
who has had three husbands, all of
whom she has "disembarrassed" her.
self Of, is writing book on "How to
Make Home Happy"-Chicago
Times.
Lots of pretty girls in New York
wear nutmeg around their necks as a
charm against malaria. Young men
have it sprinkled on top of IL glass of
milk and things for the same purpose.
Omaha World.
The announcement that the author
of"She," " Jess" and those other Eighty
romances has another novel ready for
press will cause general anxiety.
People can't stand this intellectual
delirium tremens Philadel-
phia Press,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-06-09

"Ah! good evening, Mrs. Brown.
Is your card full?" "No, Mr.. Smythe,
but my escort is, and if you would
kindly take me home wonld be so
much obliged. Lille.
A portrait OF Christopher Columbus
has not yet appeared in the Century's
Life of Lincoln" but we don't de-
spair OF seeing it there. The work is
not yet half finished Norristown
Herald.